National Parks Traveler Episode 19: Parks As Classrooms, And Katahdin Woods and Waters

By NPT Staff - June 23rd, 2019

Using national park settings as a backdrop for these programs can serve double duty – the resources are the perfect educational tool, and the settings can really connect youth to nature.

These settings seem to resonate with students', teachers', and adults' innate thirst for nature. Saul Weisberg, who helped found the North Cascades Institute in 1986, has seen students from every walk of life positively affected by their experiences in North Cascades National Park and other public lands that the Institute uses as outdoor classrooms. Saul joins us today to talk about the benefits of these outdoor programs.

Erika Zambello also checks in with Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters and their work in the national monument.

:02 Welcome to National Parks Traveler

:12 Episode introduction

1:54 Introduction to conversation with Saul Weisberg, co-founder of North Cascades Institute

3:06 Interview with Saul Weisberg

10:35 National Parks Traveler promotion

10:49 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion

11:13 Yosemite Conservancy promotion

11:50 Interview with Saul Weisberg continues

25:05 RVShare.com promotion

25:39 Friends of Acadia promotion

26:09 Washington's National Park Fund promotion

26:47 Erika Zambello and Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters interview

47:24 North Cascades Institute promotion

47:46 Yankee Freedom promotion

48:24 Rocky Moutain National Park Reader book review

51:51 Orange Tree Productions

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